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‘SPUR THE PONIES’

Tuesday’s press conference with Sumlin and company revealed

that Saturday’s 49-42 loss to top-ranked Alabama has already been forgotten by the Texas A&M football program.

Texas A&M’s formerly perfect re-cord (2-1, 0-1 SEC) may have been tarnished with an 0-1 SEC stain, but head coach Kevin Sumlin said the team has already moved past the loss and is instead focusing on Saturday’s home matchup against Southern Methodist University.

“[Monday], we had a chance to watch the video — [by positions] and as a team,” Sumlin said. “My message was, ‘After we’re done with that, we’re not talking about it any-more.’ That was the message, win or lose. We’ve got nine more games. That’s been my approach wherever I’ve been, whether they’re big games or what. It doesn’t matter whether you’re mad or you’re ecstatic, the next week you’ve got to move on,

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Aggies move past Alabama defeat, target visiting SMU

Freshmen cadets are sporting fish spurs for their original purpose this year in prepa-ration to “spur the hell outta the Ponies”

at Saturday’s football game against Southern Methodist University.

Fish spurs have been embedded in freshmen cadet tradition at Texas A&M since the 1960s, but few “non-regs” know about the tradition behind fish spurs or why it is a part of the Corps.

Corps Commander Eric Gil, senior indus-trial distribution major, said fish spurs began in the heyday of the Southwest Conference when A&M’s rivals were the University of Texas and SMU. Gil said the Corps wanted a good rallying cry for the game against SMU, whose mascot is a mustang.

“At the time, the students were predomi-nately farmers,” Gil said. “So the motto for the fish spurs was ‘Spur the Ponies.’”

Gil said the purpose of making fish spurs and honoring the tradition is to bring the freshmen

cadets closer to their outfits. The current fresh-men have known each other for about a month, so the experience is good opportunity for the cadets to get to know each other, Gil said.

“It’s a good chance to build bonds among the class,” Gil said. “It creates memories for years and links different classes across time.”

Mary Godwin, sophomore philosophy ma-jor, said the late night spent making the spurs with her unit last year was a way to learn

Jennifer Reiley Special to The Battalion

Students and community members were given constitutional food for thought

Tuesday in the MSC at the Wiley Lecture Series forum, “Drone Warfare and the Con-stitution.”

The event strategically took place on the 226th anniversary of the adoption of the U.S. Constitution and featured remarks from Ronald Sievert; professor of law and director of the Center for Military Law and Policy at Texas Tech; and Richard Rosen, director of the Advanced International Af-fairs Program at the Bush School. In their

speeches, both professors prompted students to consider whether drone warfare violates the due process clause of the Constitution.

“The question here tonight that I have been asked to answer is whether the drone warfare that we’re conducting implicates the due process clause of the constitution, and the simple answer is no,” Rosen said. “The people we are attacking, especially those who are alien enemy combatants, have no constitutional rights at all.”

Ceremony to recognize Hullabaloo Hallresidence life

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campus newsStudent Senate to meet WednesdayStudent Senate will convene at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Koldus 144 for a general meeting. During this time, senators will either confirm or reject SBP Reid Joseph’s nomination for chief justice as well as his nominations for associate justices to the SGA Judicial Court. Any student may attend and an open forum will be held at the start of the meeting.

Drones and the Constitution

Ronald Sievert speaks on the

constitutionality of drone

warfare at the Wiley Lecture

series Tuesday night in the

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Fish spurs and thier iconic sound are a daily reminder on campus of traditions surrounding the Corps of Cadets and football.

A ceremony will be held Friday to dedicate Hul-

labaloo Hall, the newest res-idence hall on campus. The ceremony will also honor the three residence halls that Hullabaloo replaced.

Kasey Kram, president of the Residence Hall Associa-tion, said the dedication will commemorate the building itself and the buildings there before it.

“It’s basically to recog-nize the building and honor

the three residence halls that were there before,” Kram said.

Three residence halls — Crocker, McInnis and Moore — were demolished to make way for Hullabaloo Hall. As a tribute, three small memorials were constructed in the courtyard from the bricks of these buildings. The first floor also houses a fireplace built using bricks from the buildings.

The ceremony will in-

Hullabaloo Hall, located on the north side of campus, gives students the opportunity to live near Northgate while being only walking distance from their classes.

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football | Texas A&M kicks off against former Southwest Conference rival SMU at 6 p.m. on Saturday at Kyle Field.

volleyball | The Aggies take a road trip to Colorado for Saturday and Sunday matches against Colorado State and Northern Colorado.

soccer | A&M looks to improve its 5-2-1 record as it travels to Tennesse to open SEC play Friday evening.

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and that’s what we’ve done.”Despite the concentrated mindset

with which Sumlin set the tone of the press conference, the A&M de-fense was forced to address many of

its struggles against Alabama quarter-back A.J. McCarron and the Crim-son Tide offense, which posted 42 points and 568 total yards Saturday.

Senior defensive back Toney Hurd Jr. emphasized the need for the A&M defense to become indepen-dent, relying less on the production of Johnny Manziel and the potent

Aggie offensive attack.“Our offense is one of the best

in the country, but as a defensive player, you can’t depend on the of-fense,” Hurd said. “As a defense, you should go out there and pitch shutouts. We’re getting closer to our goal, but it’ll take time. That was our first time with the starting 11 out there, and I feel like we’re get-ting better and we’ll be hungry in the coming games.”

Against SMU (1-1, 0-0 AAC), A&M will face two of the nation’s top offensive minds in head coach June Jones and offensive coordinator Hal Mumme.

Jones, an offensive innovator with ties to the first run-and-shoot schemes, and Mumme, who intro-duced Division I college football to the first air raid system, have sought to implement a hybrid approach at SMU.

Despite the on-the-field battle, Sumlin and his staff share a healthy respect for the coaching legends on the opposite sideline, especially considering many branched off the coaching trees of Mumme or Jones.

“[Jones] has been a winner and was one of the first guys that took a non-BCS team to a BCS bowl

game,” Sumlin said. “He’s been around the NFL game at the high-est level. He has really impacted a number of coaches that I have hired, including myself.”

The Mustangs enter Kyle Field in a similar fashion to Alabama — off a bye week — and a close 31-30 vic-tory over Montana State two weeks ago. Sumlin and A&M defensive coordinator Mark Snyder expect to see new formations and schemes

designed to confuse the young Aggie unit.

“We’ll see some new stuff,” Sum-lin said. “We’re playing at home, not complaining about that. It’ll be a new challenge for our defense because we’ll see some new stuff and we’ll have to defend the field sideline-to-sideline and vertically because they’ll try to space us out.”

As for the A&M offense, which gained 628 yards for 42 points against Alabama — a record high against the Crimson Tide — Man-ziel and company will be back at full strength with true freshman wide receiver Ricky Seals-Jones and sophomore running back Trey Wil-liams returning after limited time against Alabama.

Running back Ben Malena said the Aggies anticipate a ball-hawking Mustang defense with a focus on cre-ating turnovers, a factor the senior said A&M must eliminate through-out the matchup.

“They play ball very well,” Malena said. “One thing they do is have all 11 guys … run to the ball. They force turnovers, they have re-ally good linebacker play and they come downhill.”Texas A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin spoke with the media on the

upcoming SMU game during Tuesday’s weekly press conference.

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A&M baseball announces 2014 schedule

Head coach Rob Childress broke down A&M’s 2014 schedule.

Texas A&M released its 56-game 2014 regular season schedule Tuesday, featuring 36 home

games on Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park and in-cluding series against Southeastern Conference powerhouses Florida and LSU.

Throughout the course of the season, the Aggies will match up against 10 programs that reached last year’s NCAA Tournament, includ-ing World Series participant LSU and runner-up Mississippi State.

“We will have plenty of challenges presented to us with this season’s schedule and we’re look-ing forward to it,” A&M head coach Rob Chil-dress said in a press release. “We’re excited about the teams that will be coming into Blue Bell Park this season. Florida, Alabama, Ole Miss, Ken-

tucky and LSU will provide a lot of competition against elite SEC baseball teams.”

Texas A&M opens the season Feb. 14 with an eight-game home stand, facing off against North-eastern and Sacramento State in a three-game series at Olsen Field and Stephen F. Austin and Houston Baptist in mid-week matchups.

The Aggies will battle UT-Arlington at Rang-ers Ballpark in Arlington on March 4 before a three-game home series against Louisiana Tech to segue into SEC league play.

A&M will open its conference slate on the road against Auburn in a three-game series on March 14-16, and then will face off against Florida at home on March 21-23.

A&M will play series against Vanderbilt,

Mississippi State and Arkansas on the road, while visits from Kentucky and LSU will highlight the home slate.

Childress said both players and fans will have an opportunity to see history and tradition when they take to the road against many of the confer-ence’s top programs.

“This schedule provides a little bit of every-thing for the fans,” Childress said. “On the road, we’ll be playing in a major league park and we’ll be playing in four or five stadiums that are ranked among the best in college baseball as far as atmo-sphere and facilities.”

Staff report

It doesn’t matter whether

you’re made or you’re ecstatic, the next week we’ve got to move on, and that’s what we’ve done”

— Kevin Sumlin, Texas A&M

head football coach

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erything. While some of the most pointless apps seem to garner the most attention, three communication graduate students are researching apps that carry a different meaning.

Wendi Bellar, Brian Alten-hofen and James Cho have spent the last year gathering and organizing 472 religion-themed smartphone apps to evaluate the purpose of the apps and how they are utilized.

“It’s important to look at these apps in general and to see how society uses them in daily life,” Bellar said. “It al-lows us to get a sense of how religion is mediated through technology.”

The team spent the first six months of the project of gath-ering all the apps they could find on the market.

“We just went to iTunes and Google, searching key words to find apps,” Bellar said.

Altenhofen said iTunes does not have a categorization process for religious apps like

it does for music and books, which made the gathering process significantly more dif-ficult.

The students were awarded a grant from the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media and Culture, which provided them with around $100 to purchase the apps for either an iPad or iTouch.

The apps were taken from the five major religions of the world — Christianity, Juda-ism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. The first three had roughly 100 apps each, while Hinduism and Buddhism had about 50 each.

“Most of the apps were free,” Bellar said. “But we did come across a $200 one for Judaism where the user could project images onto a screen. That was very unusual.”

Now that the research team has finished gathering the apps, the project is now focused on organizing and analyzing the data they have.

The project, which will end in late 2014, is under the su-pervision of Heidi Campbell, an associate professor of com-munication.

Campbell started the proj-

ect to further her own research on the role of media within re-ligion.

Campbell is currently the director for an online forum — Network for New Media, Religion, and Digital Culture Studies — where scholars can share research and converse with each other on similar subjects of study.

Bellar said this research comes at a time when tech-nology and religion are not studied in partnership with each other.

Campbell said the research will answer questions about the current usage of technol-ogy and the implications for future usage in the religious worlds.

“One of the top apps downloaded worldwide is the U-Verse Bible app,” Camp-bell said. “We wanted to know the why and how.”

After analysis of the data, articles will be put on Camp-bell’s forum. Beyond that, the students plan to continue to study the apps.

Linley McCordSpecial to The Battalion

Grad students probe purpose of mobile apps rooted in faithA religious App for thAt

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clude speeches from members of the Texas A&M Board of Regents and Kram. A time capsule will also be placed to commemorate the many de-velopments in recent Texas A&M history.

Hullabaloo is only a tem-porary name for the residence hall, and the permenant name has yet to be announced — a detail officials are hoping to have taken care of by the dedication. However, Kram said the process of naming the building could take up to a few months depending on approval.

“The process is pretty high up in the University,” Kram said. “Various people on the Board of Regents decide it.”

Hullabaloo opened its

doors to students in August, making it the first residence hall to be built on campus since Rudder Hall in 1989.

Hullabaloo Hall has com-munity spaces on the second through fifth floors, which include lounges and kitchens. It is the first residence hall on campus to include elevators. The hall is currently operat-ing at maximum capacity, housing 658 students.

Josh Ortiz, freshman nu-clear engineering major and Hullabaloo Hall resident, said he enjoyed the new building, especially the design.

“I like that the building is nice and up to date with modern architecture,” Ortiz said. “I like the convenience store and the people you meet playing pingpong and pool.”

The first floor functions as a living area for all A&M students, which includes ar-

eas for games, conference rooms, a green screen room dedicated to video media and a community learning center.

Jamie Cooper, sopho-more general studies major, said the residence hall offers a communal area not previ-ously available to those on the north side of campus.

“Students who live on Northside finally have a com-mon ground to relax, study, grow in the Aggie spirit and network — just as the Com-mons has been available for the south side,” Cooper said.

The ceremony will take place at 10:30 a.m. in the Hullabaloo courtyard. Sys-tem Chancellor John Sharp, members of the Board of Regents and representatives from the Residence Hall Association will be in atten-dance.

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how to work together with her buddies and be creative. Each unit can be creative with how they attach their spurs to their shoes, but the entire unit has to look the same.

“Within a unit, fish are ‘one class’ — they learn how to do everything together and depend on each other,” God-win said. “A fish class will de-termine how their spurs will look, but within one unit, all the fishes’ spurs will be the same.”

The process of making spurs takes time and prepa-ration. Godwin said every freshman has to get bottle caps, which are sometimes collected by their upperclass-men. This year, every fresh-man must have 17 bottle caps on each foot, to correspond to their class year.

“Freshmen flatten and spray paint [the bottle caps] their class color (light blue for fish this year),” Godwin said. “They get old wire hangers and shape them into spurs that attach to their low quar-ters. This can turn into an engineering project and it’s always interesting to see the different rigs different outfits come up with.”

Paul Theiss, Corps fresh-man and construction science major, said his unit went to a family barbecue and made their fish spurs together. The unit split into groups and each group had a specific task — hammering the bottle caps or poking holes through the caps, Theiss said.

“It was wonderful to be able to work together as a team to make the fish spurs,” Theiss said.

This will be the first year in the SEC that the Corps will wear spurs for the traditional SMU game. Even though the Aggies played SMU last season, Gil said the game was too early in the year, so the Corps decided to spur the LSU Tigers instead.

“We give the freshmen two weeks to make their spurs,” Gil said. “Academics are our No. 1 priority. Spurs are tradition, not something to impede [academic] suc-cess.”

In regards to how students outside the Corps react to the sound of fish spurs, Gil said many returning students already have some idea of why the fish spurs are worn. Freshmen, however, have a more startled reaction as they have never heard or seen fish spurs until this week, Gil said.

“It’s a new sound to stu-dents,” Gil said. “Some stu-dents start to get sick of the

sound by Wednesday, but we are just showing our Fightin’ Texas Aggie Spirit.”

Although some students may get annoyed with the sound, Theiss said he enjoyed making and wearing his fish spurs. It is something new the freshmen get to wear to

campusand it is a way to get people excited for Saturday’s game.

“Fish spurs is an old Ag-gie tradition that I hope will never go away,” Theiss said.

Gil said while the fresh-men do not wear their spurs in campus buildings to avoid disrupting classes, they are expected to wear them every day.

For those who get tired of the jingling spurs, hope that the Aggies beat the hell outta SMU this weekend. If they do, the spurs come off. How-ever, if the Aggies lose, the freshmen will wear the spurs once more on the Monday following the game.

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Matt Wong — THE BATTALION

Sandra Shyi, freshman business major, relaxes in a rocking chair Monday afternoon in the courtyard of Hullabaloo Hall.

[Fish spurs are] a new sound to

students. Some students start to get sick of the sound by Wednesday, but we are just showing our Fightin’ Texas Aggie Spirit.”

— Eric Gil, Corps commander and senior industrial distribution major

Tanner Garza — THE BATTALION

“Fish spurs” are a Corps tradition with roots in the old Southwest Conference days of Texas A&M.

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